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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
WOULD WE RETURN. 90 E-' t---.

Would we return
If once the gates which close upon the past
Were opened wide for us, and the dear
Remembered pathway stretched before us clear
To lead us back to youths lost land at last,
Whereon lfes April shadows lightly cast
Recalled the old sweet days of childish fear
With all their faded hopes and brought anear
The far-of streams i'll which our skies were
glassed;
Did these lost dreams which wake the souls sad
yearning,
But lived once more and waited our returning,
Would we return
Would we return
If loves enchantment held the heart no more
And we had cone to count the wild sweet pain
The fond distress, the lavish tears-but vain;
Had cooled the hearts hot wounds amidst the
Ormountain gales or on some alien shore
Worn out the souls long anguish and had slain
At last the dragol of despar-if then the train
OF vanished years came back, and. as of yore
The voice called, and with soft eyes be-
quilting.
Our lost love beckoned, through times gray
veil smiling,
Would we return?
Would we return
Once we had crossed to the deaths unlovely
And trod the bloomless ways among the dead
Lone and unhappy; after years had fled
With twilight wings along that glmmering
strand,
If then--an angel came with outstretched
hand
To lead us back and we recalled in dread
How soon the tears that once for us are shed
May flow for others-how like words in sand
Our memory fades away-how oft our waking
Might vex the living with the dead hearts
breaking,
Would we return
Would we return?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
A Story Writer'S Success.

George R. Sims, the English playwright and
story writer, has received nearly $1,000
from his plays propuced in the United States
during the past five years. He has an Interest
in London newspaper which pays him
handsomely, and his stories always command
good prices from the publishers. He is now
in Algiers working on new romance. He
has the peculiar faculty Of being able to keep
two or three small serial stories going at the
same time, charging from one to the other
for rest-Chicago Times.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
He Saw Clear.

Mr. Crane Fallon the eminent exponent
Of palmistry)-My dear madam, your band
seems to indicate that You at some period Of
your life experienced great sorrow, followed
by great joy.
Mrs Nevada-How wonderfully correct.
got that scar from my first husband S razor
in 40. He was trying to cut his throat,
don't you know, and in spite of all could do
be succeeded-Tid Bits.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
The Heigat OF Museum Giants.

The height of all the giants are greatly e1-
aggerated, no enc of them being eight feet
high. The number of giants has greatly in
creased during the past fifteen years, and,
though they formerly earned SIS and 500 a
week, the competition has reduced their
wages to s25 week. They talk Of forming
trade union.-New York Star.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

Lucy Why, Belle! Isit all over between
you and Harry? Didn't see you out sleigh
ing last night with George?
Belle-That doesn't signify anything.
preferred to go with George; that was all.
Lucy-But look at the difference between
the two men. George is only clerk on a
small salary. He isn't handsome. Harry
is rich, he is noble looking and he adores you.
BELIEVES, and he has only one arm.
When it comes to sleigh riding, you know
Lucy-Yes, yesl That's fact. forgot
You are quite right, dear.-Chicago Trib-
,npa
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
PprfeCtIv LeuSs.

George" said the senior partner to the
junior in law firm of three, 81 thought you
told me that Alfred had gone out of town on
legal business3 understand he's down the
road on visit to young lady," "Well,
sir, said George, with an injured look, "it's
not illegal to call on a young lady, I be-
lieve?"-Puck.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

preside over the
state senate. While
the election of Rob
ert S. Robertson for
lieutenant governor
was in dispute Sen
ator Smith, as presi-
dent of the senate.
claimed the right to
assume the duties
of the position. To
maintain his posi-
ton he secured,
through j u d g e
Ayres, of the su-
preme court, an i'll
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
Diary of n PiOus Kafir.

In the last number of The Tydschrift q
"Diary Of Boer in the Kafr Commando" is
published. We extract two consecutive en-
tries: Sunday, Feb 23 No Kafirs in sight.
Held divine service. Prayer meeting at night
"a blessed time. Monday Feb. "a. Saw
Kafrs on the hills. Commando went out
and shot thirty-four, besides number that
got away wounded. Thanksgiving service in
the evening on return to camp. Sang Psalm
107, and went on sentry. Shot two Kafirs."
Pail Mall Gazette.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
HOW COULD WE ARM THEM?
The Serious Question Presented in Case
of War.

OF war.
The Franco-German war cloud, together
with the possibility, however remote, Of
trouble arising between the United States
and Canada over the fisheries dispute, has
had the natural effect of exciting great inter-
est in the various implements of modern war
fare. The standard small arm of the Ameri-
can service is the Springfield single shot rifle,
which, although an excellent weapon in its
way. is nevertheless entirely unsuited to cope
with the improved magazine rife of the pres
ent day. What makes matters worse is the
fact that, although foreign governments are
realizing that the American magazine guns
are the best in the world, our own govern
ment seems to evince a decided disinclination
to adopt any arm of American private manu-.
facture. 1t is true that in 1882, in pursuance
of an act of congress orders were issued by
the war department at Washington directing
a test, with view to the adoption of a suit
able magazine gun for the United States ser
vice. The test was a thorough one, and the
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
Abraham Lincoln's sAbstemfousoess.

A reader of The Times, of Philadelphia,
heard man say that abraham Lincoln fire.
quently went upon sprees in the company of
Stephen A. Douglas" and wrote to Col.
Mcclure asking if this was true The answer
was: mo man who knew MIR. Lincoln ever
accused him Of indulging in sprees. He was
always very abstemious man, and he was
never accused of intoxication during his life
timen
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
"cHILD OF THE coNFCOERAcY."
Portrait Os jefferson Davis Only
Daughter.

Portrait Os jefferson Davis Only
Daughter.
Miss Varina Davis has again returned to
her fathers side at their quiet home at Beau
voir, Miss, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico.
Miss Davis was born in the "White House" of
the Confederacy at Richmond while her
father presided over the Confederate states.
From her conversation it appears that she
cherishes the same sentiments as her father
in regard to the "lost cause" She regards it
as a sacred theme and considers the southern
people as martyrs. That she should imbibe
such sentiments is no more than natural.
Ever since the war she has been at her
fathers side, his chief support and consola-
tion. He educated her personally, gave her
his views of life, and fashioned her in the
mold of tho ante-belum southern lady. Her
trip north has doubtless given her new ideas
of the spirit that animates the north.
Miss Davis was received in the cities
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
THE CAPE COD CANAL.
An Improvement Projected Nearly Two
Hundred Years Ago.

MI 1H1PfONSHIeHC 1TUJeCttU INtdTIy Il VIC
Hundred Years Ago.
While the feasibility Of the Panama ship
canal is being discussed and money is being
raised for its completion, every one seems tc
have entirely overlooked the fact that we have
on Cape Cod still uncompleted canal, which
was really started in 1897, nearly two centu
ries ago. The canal was intended as a con
Meeting link between Buzzard's bay and Barn
stable bay, thus avoiding the extremely dan.
gerous passage around Cape Cod.
In 1888, the Cape Cod Ship Canal company
was granted charter by the Massachusetts,
legislature. Several companies, more or less
theoretical, had been chartered prior to that
time, but nothing practical had been accom-
plished.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
Helena, Montana, Thursday, March 10, 1887

ly 100000 years before Adam. Pain
full experience has made me a tri1e
cautious in accepting the deductions Of geol-
ogy; and, if 1 am to believe, on the testimony
of fossils, that there was a time when the
Creator let creation run itself, and the uni
verse was in q sort Of cosmic delrium tre-
mems, want at least to be sure of the fossils.
Nobody can blame me for not changing my
verdict till have tested the witnesses.
j. III. BEADLE
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

And his honor waved his pen and blotter
together and John Agamemnon Bebee was
seized by Deputy Five and hustled down
stairs There he told the old soldier that the
villain up stairs would be assassinated by the
avenging angels Of the U. o. Of B. S. Of g. F.
of the T. of s., Chapter Nine, Encampment
of the Ohio Valley.-Cincinnati Times-Star.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
THE STEVENS BATTERY.
How the Most Formidable of Ironclads
Went to the Junk Shop.

The suggestion is often made of late that
what New York harbor needs to protect it
from attack is a floating fortress that can be
moved around so as to block the constantly
changing channel of the harbor or follow an
enemy up to the city in case he ran past the
outer forts There would be many ad-
vantages in the possession of such fortress.
though low estimate of its cost would be
S3,000,000.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
A Polite Man.

What polite man Mr.. Geestring, the vio-
INST, appears to be-" Indeed. / hadn't
noticed it." "Oh, yes; bowling and scraping
all the time. The Rambler.
DO you believe in witchcraft, Mr.. Pom
sonbyP asked Laura. II was an unbeliever,
Mss Laura, until met you," responded Pom
sonby.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

Sacramento, Cal, boasts Of an athlete who
can jump IA feet 81 inches. His name is
Daniel Rogers. George w. Hamilton should
visit the Pacific slope, for he is the only man
in America that can reach that limit in q
broad, single standing jump, and he has al
ready jumped over IA feet inches.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
indian Corn in Germany.

Indian corn, having very large kernels and
long ears, is raised in central Germany, but a
former resident of the couEtry states that the
ing geese.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
The Chancellor's Aim.

How doth the little Bizzy 3
Improve his waxing power.
And plot against his Europee
An neighbors every hour.
lie buzzes here and buzzes there;
Each fiZzy feud to fan;
When they fall out, then he falls in,
And scoops what'er he can.
%. II. in Life.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
The Contest in Indiana.

This is portrait of Senator Alonzo Green
Smith, of Indiana, contestant for the right to
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01
spirits, the absence of condiments

spirits, the absence of condiments
scarcely required where sailed food is sc
common-and the want of vegetables,
the doctor advocates tho institution Of
simple and lively games for the children
of the island, the cultivation Of singing,
and the practice of instrumental music.
The worthy medical man speaks in the
Innocence of a kindly heart. He docs
not know that instrumental music, bag
pipes excluded, is the horror of these
northcrners, that 'human hymns" as tho
ordinary poetic compositions are called,
are eschewcd in the churches of the
highlands, and that the very mention
of games for the BARNS will be regarded
with grave suspicion. cat present."
adds the doctor, "whistling is strictly
forbidden" on st. KIlla.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01
Who're Beer Runs in Rills.

Hartman says in hisncw book: "What
would Munich be without becr2" AS a
ship stranded. The capital of Bavaria
floats on an ocean of foaming beer. PEG.
pie do not in common conversation spec
ulate over the weather, but ask at once:
Elbow is the beer to-day2" The Bava-
rian does not drink beer because he is
thirsty, ''but because he enjoys it, and
because he enjoys it he drinks much.'
Every man in Munich guzzles his four
quarts per diem. There arc thousands
who swallow their eight quarts and
many who will swill their ten and
twelve quarts. I knew ono man who
told me he had been drinking sixteen
quarts daily for years. A student will
manage at one sitting from ten to six.
teen quartz, which would fill about six
ty of our glasses. A congress of staid
scientific fellows met at a Munich festi-
val and each one drank 8 Go quarts
during q short sitting.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01
A Man I Ike.

Ill q man who all mean things despises,
A man who has q purpose firm and true;
WHO faces every doubt as it rise,
And murmurs not at what he, finds to do.
I like a man who shows the noble spirit
Displayed by knights of Arthur's table
round;
Who, face to face with life, proves his real
merit,
Who has a soul that dwells above the
ground.
And yet, one who can understand the worry
OF some chance brother fallen in the road,
And speak. to b IN q kind word mid the
hurry,
Or lay an easing hand upon his load.
Large-hearted, brave-souled men to-day are
needed,
Men ready when OCCASIONS doors swing
wide;
Grand. MEN to speak the counsel that is
needed,
And men in whom q nation may conide.
The world is wide, and broad its starry
arches,
But tagging malcontentS ca not hold;
The way of life to him who light marches
Has ending in a far-off street Of gold.
Meredith Nicholson
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01

The people of Oregon are looking,
some day, for an eruption from Mount
Hood, an extinct volcano in the Cascade
range, eighty miles east of Portland.
Simultaneous with the earthquake at
Charleston, strange sounds were heard in
the crater of Hood for several days, and
parties of tourists in the ncighborhood
became alarmed and returned to the city
for safety. Biologists are convinced that
it will resume operations some time. The
last eruption occurred so long ago that
the Indians have no memory of it. They
have a tradition, however, that Mount
Hood and Saint Hclens were once close
together -one on the north, the other on
the south bank of the Columbia river.
They lived in peace for thousands of years.
One day they quarrclled, throwing fire,
ashes and stones ut each other. These
fell into the river and blocked it up,
causing the great cascades of the Co.
lumbio.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01
Too Much Of a Good Thing.

The story is told of a good Methodist
brother, an itinerant, who sought shelter
for the night at q certain farmhouse. The
m dcmurred, but there had Deer q
long drought, and when the minister
suggested that his prayers might move
the Lord to send the rain, she consented
to let him stay. During the night the
floods came, and when the good woman
came down in the morning and found
her fences and chickcncoops had sailed
off for parts unknown, she was much
cast down. ~ might have known bet
ter" said the poor woman, as she cast q
rueful glance out OF the window; %
might have known better than to let 8
Methodist come into my house, for thew
always go into everything with all thei,
might, and I don't want any of 'em tc
pray any more for rain fer my benefit
no, never-if tho land dries up till il
cracks wallpapers Baza,.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01
The Farmer's Boy.

The country boy or girl is face to face
with practical realities. He sees how
slowly money is made on the farm; he
is taught from youth up the need of
economy; he has the nature of saving
first explained to him every day in the
week; he is not exposed to the tempta-
ton of the saloon or ballroom, and he is
not so much of a lady's man before he
has occasion to use a razor on his downy
cheeks. He may be a trifl. rude; he
may not feel easy in company, but in
the long, closely contested race of life it
is the chap that trudgcs to school
barefooted in summer and stogas in
winter, whose mother cuts his hair with
the sheep sheers, who leads the chap
that goes to the city school with the
starchcd shirt front and fancy slippers.
and whose head is shaved with a lawn.
mower at the barber shop. Such has
been oar observance, and we think we
know what we arc talking about
Lowa homestead.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01

Woman suffrage is apt to bring about
a strange state of affairs, says q Tacoma
Washington Territory paper. An il
lustration of this was afforded not long
since in n convention in one county,
where a lady delegate in several instances
voted in opposition to her father, who
was n delegate from the same precinct.
But a still more peculiar case is that in
Lincoln county, where Mr.. Frank NJ.
Gray, editor of the Davenport Times,
who is a member of the Territorial Re-
publican convention, is q Republican
candidate for the Legislature, while Mrs.
Gray, his vito and associate editor, is q
candidate on the Democratic ticket for
school superintendent.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01
No SlndDlDer.

Detective John Webb was passing the
Bates Street end of the vegetable market
three or four days ago when a stranger
accosted him with:
"Say, I came in town the other day to
git my boots fixed, and I was looking
around this place a little and lost a
silver dollar out of a hole in my pocket
"But you didn't come back to look
for it, did youw
"Yes, I did. Think T lost it right
over there, where I lodged q wagon.
Have you heard of any one pickining up
4 dollar2'
"No, SIR"
"Seen any advertisement in the
paperT
mo. You'd better save your time"
"Why"
"Why, man, you aren't green enough
to expect to get that dollar back, are
you2"
"Of course I am! Wasn't it mine7
Didn't I lose it2'
"Wcll! Well! Some one ought to
sandpapcr your head"
"They had, cha" qucried the man as
he searched around the street. II lost
it just about here, while I was jumping
out Of the way of a wagon. If anybody
tries to rub any sandpaper on my head
Pill"
He made a dive into the dirt and
fshcd up a silver dollar, and as he held
it between his thumb and finger and
danced around he cried:
"Hcre she is-this !, the very one! I
know it by the nick I cut on the edgel
Ought to have my head sandpapcred,
had II Well, you just bet I know my
gait, and Pm a dollar ahead! It's lucky
for me, though, that you didn't find il.
You look just like a man who'd have
chucked it into his pocket and let me go
to ruin. Sandpapcr! How would you
like to bite a file!"
And the abashcd detective couldn't
say a word in his own dcfcncc.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01
Soldiers Who Must Fast.

It has been decided that Russian SOL
diers in future must observe Lent in
the most rigorous way. They will have
to fast not only during the four '.great
Lents" yearly, but also Wednesday and
Friday, and the six great days Of prayer
and repentance. This is the calcula.
ton: The great L,nt (of Easter), 70
days; Petroffki Lent, 80 to so; Usspen-
ski Lent, II; Filippoffski Lent, 80; 9
days of prayer and repentance, g.; 81
Wednesdays and 81 Fridays, 90; total,
ITO to 200 days; on which dates neither
meat nor fish during the Easter Lent
nor eggs, nor milk, nor even sugar il
allowed. The officers assert with much
force, that tho physical strength of the
soldiers must inevitably suffer from the
new regimen. Chicago Times.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01

There is lots ot coal to be mined yet.
According to the calculations made by
a scientific writer lately, it requires a
prodigious amount of vegetable matter
to form a layer of coal, the estimate be-
ing that it would really take 1000, 900
years to form a coal bed 100 feet thick.
The United States has an area of be-
tween 300, 900 and 400, 900 square miles
of coal fields, 100, 900, 900 tons oil coal
being mined from these fields each year,
or enough to run a ring around the earth
at the equator five and a half feet wide
and five and a half feet thick, the guam
tity being sufficient to supply the whole
world for a period of 1900 to 5000
years.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01
A Montana Dug.Out.

A correspondent of the Washington
Star, who has been roughing it in Mon
tana, says: The house that we hastily
put up here, until we could build our
permanent cabins, was a sort of a dug
out. First we dug down into the ground
about five feet, and then on the sides and
back placed two logs; this gave a height
of about seven feet at the caves and nine
to the ridgepole. The dimensions inside
were fourteen by sixteen feet. The
front was made entirely of logs, and in
it we had two windows twenty-five by
twenty-four inches each. For a roof we
placed poles each side of the ridgepole,
and then covered them with hay and
dirt. When finished we had a dirt roof,
dirt walls. dirt floor, md lived in and
almost ate dirt. In the rear of the cabin
we had a fireplace, which was our only
heating apparatus, and on it we did all
of our cooking, with utensils which con-
sisted of a coffee pot. frying pan, iron
pot and dutch oven. In tho latter we
made bread and did oil our baking.
Our bill of fare was not likely to induce
dyspepsia. 1t had a surprising same
ness, and was made up of bread, coffee,
bacon and beans, with a little rice for q
change, but plenty of deer meat helped
us out amazingly.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01

For ways that are dark and tricks
that arc vain the old world gambler,
perhaps, discounts his enterprising
brethren in America. A correspondent
writes that in a gambling saloon in
Moscow the walls and ceiling were
covered with paper on which stars were
stamped. Among the stars in the ceiling
holes were cut, and a man lying on the
floor in the room above saw the hands of
those playing cards and telegraphcd
them, by means of wires connected with
his shoes, to his confederate.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-02-01

Says the New York Commercial i'd
0ertiser "Ex-Scnator Hunter, Of Vir-
ginia, is now collector of customs at the
little port of Acconiac, on the Potomac,
where the salary is only about $500 a
year, and the place was given him as q
mark of respect by the present admins
tration. He is now over so years of age,
md has had more history crowded
into his life than has been experienced
by many men. Forty years ago he was
one of the ablcst statesmen of the time,
and although since the close of the war
he has not been a n active participant in
politics, he still retains much of his early
viSor and ability. In 1880 he was a
member of the legislature of Virginia, in
1887 a member Of congress-; in 1916 he
was speaker of the house of rep esenta-
tives; in 1S4S he was elected to the
United States senate, and continued to
hold q seat in that body until he was
expelled in 1861. During the war he
served in the confederate senate, and was
captured after the evacuation of Rich.
mond Then he was sent to Fort Lafay-
cite, and remained in prison until par
doned by President Johnson. lie has
since been living at the little town of
Acconiac, about sixty miles from Wash
ington, conducting a plantation. Most
people who have not forgotten him sup
pose him to be dead, but he is still hale
and healthy, and has a constitution that
bids fair to outlast the century,"